Is there a way I can copy straight from VHS video to Adobe Premiere

[Alex Udell]

Hi,

if you have a DV camcorder, most of them will allow the signal fromt he VHS to be run thru them and out the 1394 port.

then the 1394 >connects to the firewire port of your computer.

You won’t have deck contol and the timecode generated will be meaningless to the VHS source….

but you can get your material intopt he system this way.

Otherwise you will need a Analog > firewire converter.

ADS Pryo makes a pretty iexpensice one as I recall.

good luck,

[Randy Mcwilson]

You will have to use one of the following solutions:

1. Capture through your video card (most of the newer cards have an s-video input that you can use to capture through)

2. Use a firewire converter box that takes the analog VHS signal and converts it to Firewire (DV) which would then hook into a firewire port in the PC

3. There are some analog to USB converter boxes to get the signal digitized and then transferred over USB.

4. Get a dedicated capture/playback card with breakout box like a Matrox RT.x2 or similar.

Solutions run from about $100 to $2000.

Another issue is getting audio in and synched up with the video. Many people are buying inexpensive mini-DV cameras that allow for analog to DV input and then hooking the camera up to the computer through firewire. This way the camera acts as the digitizer to then send the info to the PC.

Eternity…don’t miss it for the world.

[Darren Edwards]

We used to capture VHS a much easier way: we found a VHS
player which had a firewire socket. You couldn’t control
the device from PPro, but PPro would quite happily
capture video/sound once Play was pressed.

Alternatively, you will need to buy a little DAC (digital/
analogue convector).

D.

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[Dougie Campbell]

will have a look.Thanks for all your help guys